Justin Ward
1 min readMar 8, 2020

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2019 was a year ago. That’s when Biden came around to supporting federal funding for abortion. If you’re going from Warren to Biden right now, it speaks volumes about your priorities.

Bernie threatens your interests as a middle class white person. Biden threatens the reproductive freedom of working class women of color who are losing access to abortion. Missouri is down to one clinic. A similar situation is happening in most Southern states, including my home state in Texas. Comfortable white women can take time off to drive across state lines to get an abortion. Working class women can’t.

Biden has for his entire life deferred to the conservative states rights argument on abortion. He’ll pick “compromise” nominees for federal benches. This is acceptable to you because it doesn’t affect you as a middle class white person.

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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